Theses are the logs of the USS Carica on its several month mission to grow some roots. LoL. Mario, when I read 'rooting log', that phrase just popped in the forefront of my mind. Hopefully, we'll both be successful on our mission when the time comes.

I harvested a few fruit. It is from a cutting last winter, the figs are a little small, but they were very good, and held up well to heavy rains. The plant is young, so I can only expect better size and taste in the future. it was stressed a touch from under than over watering from heavy rains.

Very nice Drew.  That's a beauty!

That's a great looking tree Danny, how old?

Dom

I have a couple plants and one I put in the ground. It produced a few figs but mostly just grew like crazy. It's 7 feet tall. I will most likely lose top growth though. I will try and protect somewhat. Thanks again for the cuttings. A very good fig for sure

@DomGardens - Thank you!  She is going on 8 years old.  Mother tree is 37-40 years old.

@drew51 - I guess she was busy putting down roots.  There has been a massive amount of growth here too but will be easy to control because of the hard prune we did at the end of last season.

I know that I posted somewhere that we planted a Sweet Diana in-ground in the northern garden, Oneonta, NY, zone 5b.  Although we are zone 5b, temperatures are still regularly recorded in the -20F and -30F range.  I think the low in town was recorded as -23F last winter.  We're on the very top of the mountain and get much colder so going to guess we were -30F or colder.  But we regularly sustain negative single digit temps for days at a time.  Last year we planted a Hardy Chicago, Florea and Sweet Diana all in-ground with no protection.  All three varieties were 2 years old and healthy.  The location for planting wasn't ideal but they do receive 9+ hours of direct sunlight every day.  The HC and Florea did not make it.  Sweet Diana died to the ground but pulled through.  Came back strong and healthy and is a little over 2 feet tall now.  Definitely a testament to the good genes of this variety.  This is a pic of how she looked a week or so ago.



Looking forward to seeing how she does this winter.

Yes, I was actually growing it to root well by feeding it well. As most say to plant in ground 2nd or 3rd year plants. I wanted to skip that. Thanks for the info. I'm in 5b so I guess I made a good choice to trial this plant here. It is close to the house and some ambient ground heat from the house should help this winter. I will protect it as best possible.